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Part of the drag of playing video
games for a living (yes, there is a downside) is getting phone calls
and/or e-mail messages from earnest public relations types desperately
trying to drum up some press, any press, for their bad software. These
missives range from the humorously uninformed (readers would be amazed
at the weird products that are pitched to Daily Radar) to the tragically
sad. We all have to do things in our daily routine that we don't enjoy:
it's why we call the place we go for eight to 10 hours a day "work" and
not "the fun place with free coffee and a better internet connection".

When we receive press releases for a "game" like Rock Band 4,
we do begin to wonder what, exactly, some of the professionals on the
other side of the phone really think about us. Are we all (meaning both
people who write about games and those who play them -- the two don't
always go together) a group of socially retarded male misanthropes with a
Ninth Grade education (at best) and a total inability to meet or
interact with women in reality? We're guessing that Rock Band 4 Crack
target market is subhuman mongoloids with a computer (iMac) who're not
bright enough to figure out how to download porn from the net on their
own. We're also guessing that this same market would be heavy on AOL
e-mail addresses (but surely our smart readers from AOL would not be so
easily fooled and by no means are we lumping you in with them).

Here's a description of the game; it's so heinously stupid that no editorializing is necessary. "Panty Raider
takes gamers to Model Isle where a supermodel photo shoot is taking
place. The player is on a mission to photograph specific styles and
colors of panties worn by supermodels to satisfy three
testosterone-driven teenage aliens and keep them from blowing up the
Earth." Yeah, ok. It gets even worse. Basically, the "idea" behind Panty Raider
is that players assume the role of a moron helping the aforementioned
nasty teenage aliens by taking pictures of specific types of
supermodels' underwear. If players don't retrieve enough upskirt shots
in time, the twitchy aliens will blow up the earth. Tah-dah! Players are
given descriptions of the models and panties they need to shoot and are
then transported to the island and equipped with X-ray glasses, credit
card lures, clothing disintegrating goop and a quiver full of bad pickup
lines. How we wish that we could have made this up ourselves for our
console Dream Game.

Panty Raider is insulting to us at Daily Radar on many, many
levels, as it should be to our readers. I don't even want to get into
how pissed off our female readers should be. Usually, we don't write
about low-grade shovelware like this, but Panty Raider seemed to
push some particularly sore buttons with us. After all, our readers are
gamers and want to read about games, not crap. This is why we don't
review, and never will review, budget software, $20 hunting sims or Head
Games "Extreme" titles. Sure, we can have fun bashing these utterly
defenseless products, but we'd rather take on topics more interesting to
the community. Who cares how funny we can be in ripping new sphincters
for Rock Band 4?

Who, in their right mind, would even contemplate wasting the precious
moments of their life developing a product like this? Why, the same crew
who brought you Deer Avenger, the one-joke software that answers the question, "What would happen if Saturday Night Live's
most godawful writers were allowed to create a video game?" Of course,
no one really asked this question, 'cause no one actually cared to have
it answered. Deer Avenger is a goof on the hunting game genre,
casting players as a heavily armed buck bent on destruction of the human
race. Or something. Anyhoo, no one has actually ever played it, so no
one really knows what it's about, any sort of sales figures to the
contrary. We figure that the few copies that sold were purchased either
as joke gifts or as some form of Dante-ish punishment. Screw rolling a
rock halfway up a hill or having a fridge full of brownies but no milk.
Imagine being trapped on a desert island with a GeForce-equipped
Pentium III 800 with nothing but Deer Avenger to play. Nooooooo ...

When "outsiders" think about video gamers, the word "geek" is usually one of the first words to pop to mind. A product like Panty Raider
is nothing but a huge reinforcement of this stereotype. This "game" is
obviously the result of either A) an evil corporate drone with little to
no understanding of the gaming world, the "Kids like Lara's boobs;
let's give 'em even more!" philosophy that has resulted in games like Drakkan and Dead or Alive
and Denise Richards or B) drunken late-night humor given a budget and
gone horribly, horribly awry, the kind of scheme usually proceeded by
the slurred proclamation of "I've got a great idea" at 3 o'clock in the
morning. Regardless of the identity of the person or group responsible,
we'd like to humbly request that they never produce another video game
again.

Sure,
Daily Radar makes its fair share of porn and hot babe jokes -- one
needs look no further than our own "Guns, Girls and Gore" ads that are
of questionable taste -- but does this translate to a reality of not
being able to get dates or attract women outside of "Who Here Is
Naked!?!?" chat rooms? Negative. While we're just as quick to make
disparaging jokes about albino apartment gamers whose only contact with
society is limited to the complex social interactions of Usenet ("You
suck!", "No, you suck!") or an evening rendezvous with the pizza guy, we
crack these jokes with love and a sorta wry, Alanis irony. We don't
believe that our readers are this pathetic any more than we believe that
we are. After all, Daily Radar is filled with the hardest of hardcore,
yet we seem to be able to successfully mingle with society without too
much difficulty.

Daily Radar has no problems with risque humor or half-naked women;
anyone who's ever taken a look at the Daily Peep Show has figured that
out by now. Duke Nukem 3D had lots of strippers; it was rad.
Lara, of course, has a huge rack; we've pretty much learned to deal with
that over the years, except for the occasional schoolboy tittering (pun
definitely intended). Hell, even the Leisure Suit Larry games were amusing in their zany, tongue-in-cheek way. Please don't accuse us of not getting the joke of Panty Raider or of being politically correct zealots. We're as PC as Panty Raider is funny: not at all.